Cape Town Harbour

I thought it was about time I got this blog going again. I've got a few posts half-written in the drafts that I'll post in the next few days. In the meantime here's a picture from my recent trip to the beautiful Cape Town in South Africa

a sunny day!

There was a lovely sunny day for once, and luckily I was out with my camera and managed to grab a couple of shots so I can remind myself that the weather really can be nice in the dreary months to come!

Aisling and Fergus

Aisling

Stephen's Green Lake

Me, taken by Aisling

Stephen's green evening sunshine

Fresher's week '08

Brian after his shift at the grind

Ian and the (sadly non alcoholic) Kopperberg

Ciaran looking happy with Cranley's sticker...

Don't mess with the auditor during fresher's week!

Susan leaves her mark...

...and shows off her hemming skills!

James on security detail

Shane maintains that he was neither to fat, nor too ugly to model for Ralph Lauren, they just wouldn't pay him enough

Gregg being all busy and important.

Click to enlarge any of the images

L&H porn debate

The L&H's annual porn debate was last night, so I brought my camera along. The lighting in the theatres is always really tricky, so these are a mix of flash and natural ones. Bouncing the flash off the ceiling normally gives a much nicer look than pointing it straight at people (because the light looks more natural instead of the overly bright/ shadowy look you get with a normal flash). The problem in those theatres is that the ceiling is brown, so if you try that you get very brown people (and not in the way that fake tan attempts to make them!


The Rabbi

The philosopher

The auditor

Conor and The crowd (the guy to his left doesn't count)

Dwarfed by history!

Mags takes the hecklers down

The pastor

Sheehy and Janine

Daithi in pauses for laughs

Ian getting his porn talk on

Festival of World Cultures

Big congratulations to Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Coucil for their organisation of the wonderful festival of world cultures. There was a great atmosphere and great music to be found on the coast today. It was also nice to see the sun make a guest appearance!

Sax on the coast

A very long Teddy's queue!

A well populated peoples' park



Lots of interesting instruments on display!



Please buy our CD!


There were topless drummers...

...and barefoot dancers

And even sand sculptures!

fishing at dusk

You might have noticed that there haven't been that many new photos around here lately. That's in part because I've been working away and quite tired, but more so because the weather has been miserable any time I've been around to go out! I thought there was going to be a nice sunset the other night, but it didn't turn out that well. Just took a couple of shots of the glow after it had gone down instead from the West Pier in Dun Laoghaire.

Bavarian Countryside

This is my most viewed photo on Flickr, it's one of the first ones that comes up when you search for Germany on Yahoo. It's weird how popular it is, because although I like it, I don't really think it's one of my best.

Croatian sunset

One from last summer this, from Pula in Croatia. They have amazing Roman ruins all over the two, it's definitely worth a visit.

In other news, the Guardian quoted my previous post, so I was happy with that given that I'm only a week back blogging! I'll have a couple of posts over the weekend including thoughts on the intriguing Freakonomics which I've just finished, so stay tuned.

A picture!

Canon 5D 17-40 F4L


This is one from the Swiss Alps taken in May. There's something about the slope and sweep of it that really appeals to me. I took all the photos on that holiday in black and white as a bit of a challenge! The snow really lends itself to B&W with really strong contrasts between light and dark.

5D 24-105 L


I've decided (with more than little cajolement) that it's time to bring this blog back to life. Here's a photo to get the ball rolling. From Dun Laoghaire Pier in April this year. It wasn't a great sunset until the sun went down, but then the clouds really started to glow.

A couple of edits

Upper Yosemite Falls from Swinging Bridge



Hetch Hetchy (don't drain the resevoir!!!!!)

Sorry about the complete lack of posts lately, I've been working insane hours. Lately I've been working on trying to blend to edits of the same picture in order to preserve more of the detail. So in the one of the bridge here, the original shot that I had, had the whole area of water completely white, which looked awful. However with a few simple edits, you can bring back a bit of the detail. These are both from Yosemite last summer.

mini marathon

just a shot from the mini marathon. So many women! Click to view this one large, it's only then that you get a lot of the detail. I love the one man trying to direcet them all, reminds me of the old story about the pebble controlling the flow of a river.





As with every other year, there were a few interlopers as well, no doubts raising lots of money for charity in most cases!

Grand Central B&W

One that I edited into B&W from Grand Central when we were over in New York and Yale.

it's a montage...!

Playing around in a last ditch effort to avoid studying. Some political figures past, present (for a couple of days at least!) and potentially future.

A couple more fashion ones

A couple more of the fashion shots from this issue of the Observer. The models are Sharleena and Kerry, Clothes from Penny's

one from Europe

A random shot from Europe last summer as I've not taken any pics in the last few days!

Rugby

A couple of decent enough rugby shots from UCD V. Belfast Harlequins in thier relegation showdown that UCD won on Saturday.